Simpiwe Tshabalala
CEO & Executive Director
Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. On behalf of Ms. Nonkululeko Nyembezi, our Chairman, the Board of Standard Bank Group and the leadership team, welcome to our results for 2025. Thank you for joining us. It’s wonderful to see all of you. The overarching message of today’s presentation is that we do what we say we’re going to do. We keep our promises, and we meet our targets as we have for the period from 2020 to 2025. We will do so again in 2026, and we will do so over the next medium-term period, which is from this year to 2028.
As you may recall, in 2021, in the depths of the pandemic, socially distanced, wearing masks, battling with the mute button, we nevertheless chose to take the long view, and we were optimistic. We made 3 deliberate strategic choices. First, transform client experience; second, execute with excellence; and third, to drive sustainable growth and value. The order of these choices is not random. We made a clear decision to put our clients front and center in everything that we do, a commitment that, as you will see, firmly continues today. These choices had consequences for our structure and for how we allocated our capital and our energy. In line with our commitment to transform client experience, we reemphasize that our group is built from and led by the business units.
